moment get date formatted on locale

Question

From the moment docs setting format as l returns in format "M/D/YYYY". Is there a way to get the date in just D/M or M/D format depending on locale? Here is the code i have right now.

var locale = window.navigator.userLanguage || window.navigator.language;
moment.locale(locale);
var momentTime = moment(d);
console.log(momentTime.format('l'));

For instance if the locale is French then the date should be returned in D/M format and if the locale is english-us then the date should be returned in M/D format automatically.

Answer 1

One way to do what you need is getting localized longDateFormat and then remove the year part with a regular expression.

Here a working example that uses localeData and then longDateFormat . I'm not sure that it will work for each locale, but it gives the right result for fr and en-us (and probably many others).

 var locale = window.navigator.userLanguage || window.navigator.language; moment.locale(locale); // Get locale data var localeData = moment.localeData(); var format = localeData.longDateFormat('L') // Remove year part format = format.replace(/.YYYY/, ''); var momentTime = moment(); console.log(momentTime.format(format)); 

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